Film Humor Quotes

You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.

I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing.

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.

So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.

I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.